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“There is a fine line between comedy and tragedy, and George Bush tripped on it last week when he announced the short-sellers will be "persecuted".
The comedy - barely funny in a below-par Radio 4 sketch show kind of way - is that this man does not appear to know the difference between the words 'persecuted' and 'prosecuted'. The tragedy is that this man is the second-most powerful in the world (the most powerful is Vladimir Putin - but that's a subject for another day).” source...